Saudi Arabia Plans to Open Highest Prayer Place in World

Saudi Arabia has revealed features of the highest Islamic prayer place in the world.

The place is still under construction in the holy city of Mecca. It will be opened later to worshipers after completing furnishings. The suspended prayer place has been built at 161 meters.

Its area is 400 square meters and it can house 200 worshipers. It looks directly over the Great Mosque of Mecca.

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The first phase of the prayer place has been completed.

It was extended between twins towers situated in the area surrounds the holy mosque of the holy city.

The suspended prayer place comes among other projects to develop core of the holy city to cope with expansion in number of pilgrims and visitors throughout the year.

It locates near the main corridor of pedestrians lead to Al Harameen train station.

Eng.  Anas Saleh Seerfy, head of the Real Estate Committee in Mecca’s Chamber of Commerce, tweeted that the suspended prayer place has many advantages such as enables the worshipers there to pray correctly with collective worshipers in the Great Mosque.

It is worth mentioning that the Great Mosque of Mecca, also known as the Haram.

The Sacred Mosque  is a mosque that surrounds the Kaaba in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is a site of pilgrimage for the Hajj, which every Muslim must do at least once in their lives if able; it is also the main phase for the ‘Umrah, the lesser pilgrimage that can be undertaken any time of the year.

The rites of both pilgrimages include circumambulating the Kaaba within the mosque. The Great Mosque includes other important significant sites, including the Black Stone, the Zamzam Well, Maqam Ibrahim, and the hills Safa and Marwa.

It is always open, regardless of date or time.[citation needed]

The Great Mosque is the largest mosque in the world and has undergone major renovations and expansions through the years.

It has passed through the control of various caliphs, sultans and kings, and is now under the control of the King of Saudi Arabia who is titled the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.